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Report from the Webinars prepared for the purpose of the EU Awareness project

Nº 601453-CITIZ-1-2018-1-ES-CITIZ-CIV

Responsible: Clube Intercultural Europeu

Contact Person: Zuzanna Dziedzic

Data: March 24, 2020

Webinars were developed by the Clube Intercultural Europeu in cooperation with external

experts. Topics and issues embraced in short, up to 10 minutes videos corresponded to those

of the debates organize between June – December 2019. They are aimed at: completing

information which has been provided during the debates and foster discussion on future of

Europe.

Presented approach resulted in creation of six webinars and cooperation with 2 experts

and 2 entities which allows as reach wider audience and may lead to further initiatives in

the context of media literacy and UE relavant issues.

2 supporting institutions

Autónoma University of Lisbon provided

technical help and audiovisual room to

prepare Webinars on the Media Literacy

topics.

Representation of European Commission in

Portugal declared their availability to assit in

Webinars preparation. Due to the current

situation (state of emergency related to

COVID-19) interview with The Head of

Representation, Sofia Alves, was postponed.

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EXPERTS

Our Webinars were prepared in cooperation with following experts:

PAULA LOPES

Assistant Professor at Autónoma University

of Lisbon, coordinator of the undergraduate

and master's degrees in Communication

Sciences.

PhD in Sociology at ISCTE-IUL, with a grant

from the Portuguese Foundation for Science

and Technology (FCT). She is researcher at

the Center for Communication and Society

Studies at the University of Minho, member of OBSERVARE and co-founder of NIP-C @ M, UAL.

Her research focuses on media and digital literacy (evaluation of practices and skills), media and

digital consumption, and media / citizenship relationship practices (in her doctoral thesis she

explores this type of relationships and submits them to empirical evidence, questioning “if” and

“how” media literacy has an impact on individuals' citizenship practices).

She is the author of several scientific articles published in leading journals such as

"Communications", "OBS *", "Social Analysis", "Janus", "Media and Journalism" and "Studies in

Communication".

DANIEL ADRIÂO

Publicist at „Público” and „Saturday”,

manager, former leader of the Socialist

Party, critic of "situationism" in the

Political Parties and defender of a broad

reform of the political system. Author of

the book "Portugal a Half-Rod".

Between 2011/2016 Board Member and

Executive Director of the Consortium

E.xample – Internationally representing

the Portuguese industry of educational

technologies. His professional path include: Board Member of the Foundation for the Mobile

Communications and ICT Advisor to the Ministry of Public Works, Transports and

Communications of Portugal.

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WEBINARS

Webinars have similar structure.

I Opening explaining Webinars objective and presenting project

II Theme to be presented

III Questions to the expert (mostly form 3 to 5 most relevant)

IV Expert Response

V Closing

Webinars will be available on EUAwareness project official webpage and

Youtube page of the Clube Intercultural Europeu.

Traillers will be published on the Clube Intercultural Europeu Facebook

page.

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I WEBINAR: Critical Thinking and Media with Paula Lopes

Presented Webinar was aimed at exploring critical thinking and media literacy as a concept,

drawing attention to the importance of promoting Media Literacy. The role of media in

democracy was embraced in discussion with Paula Lopes.

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II WEBINAR: Where is the knowledge we lost in information? with Paula Lopes

Based on Thomas Eliot remark, second webinar sought to introduce relevant concept in the

context of media literacy, debunking and analysing so-called „fake news” and their impact.

Following first Webinar we discussed media literacy as a basic competence which enable citizens

actively and consciousely involved themseves into public life. Paula Lopes explained the

difference between desinformation campaign, misinformation and so-called fake news.

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III WEBINAR: Euroscepticism and Future of Europe with Daniel Adrião

Third Webinar was aimed at fostering discussion on Euroscepticim and its roots. Our expert

introduced basic assumptions lying behind this concept and its impact on debate about the

future of Europe. Discussion focused on Eurocepticism in portuguese context.

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IV WEBINAR: Euromyths and their impact with Daniel Adrião

This Webinar was dedicated to Euromyths and the way how they impact and shape portuguese

perception of EU. Some common euromyths as „refugees stealing our jobs” were discussed.

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V WEBINAR: How to shape the future of the EU with Daniel Adrião

Fifth Webinar aimed at discussing future of Europe. How portuguese see future of Europe,

what are the most relevant challanges Europe faces currently, what we may expect / needs to

happen to succesfully shape the future of the EU?

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VI WEBINAR: Importance of the EU with Daniel Adrião

With this webinar we try to respond to the question if EU really matters and has an impact on

daily life of Portuguese citizens.